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Prevalence of diabetes mellitus in elderly people in Canada — report from the Canadian Study of Health and Aging
Author(s)	Kenneth Rockwood, Meng-Hee Tan, Stephen Phillips
Journal title	Age and Ageing, vol 27, no 5, September 1998
Pages	pp 573-577
Keywords	Diabetes ; Cross sectional surveys ; Canada.
Annotation	Diabetes mellitus is common in older people, and is associated with disability, morbidity and mortality. However, there are controversies about the epidemiology of diabetes in old age. Three measures of diabetes were used in a secondary analysis of the Canadian Study of Health and Aging, a 1991 nationwide cross-sectional study of the prevalence of dementia in a sample of 10,263 older people aged 65-106 years. Of those living in the community, 10.3% reported diabetes. Supplementing this information with clinical reports and random plasma glucose measurements increased the prevalence to 12% in the community, 17.5% in institutions, and 12.4% overall. The method of ascertainment therefore influences estimates of prevalence, with self-report underestimating diabetes prevalence. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-981119003 A
Classmark	CPD: 3KB: 7S
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